Belinda Stronach Is In The Wrong Party !

If she actually believes in the things you mentioned here, whey did she run for the cons-alliance-reform. Surely, she could read just as anybody else could what this party stood for and couldn't have been so stupid that she didn't understand that the alliance took over the Progressive Conservative Party and that the alliance viewpoint would prevail. Is she this stupid or was she just so hungry for power and saw this as the best means to it? At any rate, I heard nothing during the campaign to indicate she believes in any of the things you talk about here.

Nor when she ran for leadership did she care to mention it. If it is something she cares so much about, why not mention it whenever possible? Or is it that she KNOWS that the dog chow party wants nothing to do with unions, so she has changed her ways?

Belinda Stronach's family runs Magna, a company at the centre of 25% of every job in Canada (the automotive and auto parts sector employs directly or indirectly 1 in 4 Canadians). Free trade is one of the things that drives Stronach and she'd hardly stand behind Layton on his stance on that issue. Her family's company depends very much on positive trade relations with the United States.

The Magna plant in Newmarket/Aurora is not unionized.

Actually ANON the auto industry in Canada is in danger cause of the free trade agreement. Cause of free trade, the auto industry is not protected like it once was. For one Canadian jobs in the auto industry will see the same thing as in the U.S.

Think about Flint michigan when GM sent thousands of jobs over seas for cheap labour. Were gonna see the same thing happen here under these so called free trade agreements.

I don't know if magna corp and Belinda Stronach are that ignorant to the fact that more integration into the U.S with these so called free trade agreements will hurt the auto industry in Canada. What we need is a Canadian made auto industry. If other small countries can do it, so can Canada.

Kevin

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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
--Bertrand Russell

I believe your numbers are a bit whacky. Which hat did you pull them from? For starters, the bulk of autoparts sold in this country are imported from the US. In essence, Canada really doesn't have an autoparts industry or even an automotive industry per se (there isn't one Canadian car manufacturer); what we do have is an automobile assembly industry of parts shipped in mostly from the US. By the way, these are probably the jobs in the that can most easily be shipped out of the country if the autopact ever disappears.